Re: Reference set in HPACK

Poul--

That is orthogonal-- small data frames are necessary for latency as well,
and the impact on packetization with full DATA frames is minimal, with near
zero impact on latency.


-=R



On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
wrote:

> In message <
> CAP+FsNc+xW1gKma0McrgXtPpwR0BCubHkvHhUbcHHyn1Sd6t0g@mail.gmail.com>,
> Roberto Peon writes:
>
> >If the headers were regularized, with the use of a reference set, one
> could
> >imagine a reduction of 20 bytes per header.
> >With 100 elements, this is approximately 2k of data, or two packets worth.
>
> You'd save as many if not more bytes by being able to transfer the
> biggest of the 100 elements in DATA frames larger than 16383 bytes.
>
> I think it is fair to ask for some credible real-world data that shows
> reference sets making an actual difference that justifies the added
> complexity.
>
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